How to Polish a Flute

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to show you how to polish your flute. First of all we'll start off with our silver plate flute here. You can get this silver polishing cloth at any you know, music store, any jewelry store, that will work too. You want to basically start, we want to start with our little head joint, first and it is really helpful if you do this after every time you get done playing, to help kind of keep it in between times, happen to get it totally detailed. We'll start just gently rub. You don't really want to use any abrasive cleaner on here. Keep in mind your flute is just plated, so you can work through the plating of that flute. Start off cleaning that one there. And now we'll go to the body, you want to kind of do our keys first, and kind of be real gentle, try to get in between if you can. It's kind of hard, there's really tight spaces. But when you're working this part right in front of the paths, you want to be real careful so you don't catch the fronts of those. You can damage those, and they will have to be replaced. Yeah, so you don't really want to do that. And we'll go onto our foot joint. Get that all cleaned off. There you go. Now our nickel is a little bit different. This is kind of not so forgiving, you can't quite, there's might be some spots on it where you just can't get it polished. And that is completely normal. But with this one we're going to start off with a little bit of Windex here. And I'll start with our little head joint. Wipe off all their fingerprints. And I have a lacquer cloth right here. And the silver cloth will work good too, but this one is just made for that. Wipe that off, and as you can see, the Windex did a pretty good job in the first place with this flute, but. And again, you really want to stay away from the paths. But that is how to polish your flutes."